Hong Kong, “Ta Kung Pao” today in the “News” post issued descriptions, our economic procedure carries on to descent, joined concurrently with the second gesture of fiscal tsunami is about to “immediate”, the redundancy rate in Hong Kong following the tough get higher to 34 month high, after applying for redundancy and CSSA low-income advance month on a advance new 5-year high, getting higher by 3.5% and 2.8%, to ask for for the number of instances have commenced to rebound from the lows.
Hong Kong Social Welfare Department estimated that the financial tsunami will have more people to apply for CSSA will do its best to provide them with counseling and retraining services. Charitable organizations think, at this stage, the figure has not fully reflect social reality, is expected to finance the power of the tsunami will continue to emerge.
Social Welfare Department on the 18th advertised in February the number of CSSA cases. The current diagrams suggest that by the end of February the number of CSSA instances total 289,000, exemplifying a 4500 get higher in January. Monthly advance of 1.6 out of 100, the total number of recipients of more than 476,000 people.
Figure also illustrated that all classes of recipients were listed across the board boost in cases among CSSA recipients Tatsu 32,875, on behalf of a pointed boom in January, as shortly as 3.5 per cent, since the highest boost since SARS, appeal for a figure of “catch upward “December 2007 levels. And to appeal for low-income CSSA cases to arrive the 16,367 figure, and the monthly boost of 2.8 per cent, are same in May 2003 the highest boost since. With regard to single classes of cases, there were 36,831, a monthly boost of 1.8%.
The face of Hong Kong shall have more citizens unemployed, the Director of Social Welfare, Mr Stephen Fisher, expects the figure to appeal for CSSA in the next minority months shall extend to rise. He said that on a entire month to appeal for CSSA cases and cases of CSSA recipients boosts were listed, reflecting the commercial tsunami is affecting the livelihood of the citizens of Hong Kong. He said that the Social Welfare Department shall supply the unemployed with retraining and counseling services to aid the public know and emotional home had been affected.
Chinese University of Hong Kong Social Work Assistant Professor, Department of Hong Huang said that in February had been likely to figure CSSA shall be listed considerable boosts, and is guessed to appeal for CSSA illustrate an upward trend, until the unemployment rate is likely to have stabilized afterwards merely down.
HUANG Hong-Say, in the past, even if getting higher redundancy, are not real-time are mirrored in the number of CSSA requests for paid job on, “because more of the out of work have savings, you can trust their savings to make comes to an end meet”, commonly at 9 months or a year can be reflected; But since last year, many of grass-roots population are underemployed, or even toiling destitution, in the nonexistence of savings and contributing elements, can only ask for for CSSA, the source of the greater increase.
Faced with this situation, HUANG Hong-proposal, the SAR Government can at this critical juncture for the people who need help to provide short-term economic assistance, such as the establishment of emergency unemployment assistance to find a job or to provide subsidies. He also proposed to simplify the administrative procedures to apply for CSSA, so that all these affected persons, to be exact assist.
